On 1/16/12 5:59 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > > What I think is needed instead is a write-heavy benchmark with a think > time in it, so that we can dial the workload up to, say, 90% of I/O > capacity, but that spikes to 100% when checkpoint sync happens. Then > rearrangements in syncing that reduces caching pressure should be > visible as a latency reduction in client response times. My guess is > that dbt-2 can be configured to provide such a workload, and I don't see > a way forward here except for me to fully embrace that and start over > with it.
You can do this with custom pgbench workloads, thanks to random and sleep functions. Somebody went and make pgbench programmable, I don't remember who. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
